FCC defends crackdown on TV swearing
Cory Bergman December 7th, 2006
The FCC is sticking by its guns contending that Fox’s broadcasts of the ‘02 and ‘03 Billboard Music Awards are indecent. (The line in ‘03 from Nicole Richie: “Have you ever tried to get cow shit out of a Prada purse? It’s not so fucking simple.”) Fox, CBS and NBC say the FCC’s tough new criteria for determining which swear words are indecent is inconsistent. Responds the FCC, “Tellingly, the networks spend virtually no effort defending Fox’s broadcasts or arguing that the commission erred in determining that they were indecent and profane. Instead it devotes its efforts to attacking nonfinal orders involving other parties, and raising abstract claims regarding news and sports broadcasts that are far removed from the entertainment programming at issue here.” Fox had said that the FCC crackdown marks the end of “truly live television,” but the FCC said it draws a distinction between live news and sports programming and entertainment programming.
2 Comments Add your own
1. discreet_chaos | December 7th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Not to jump on a bandwagon, but if the FCC really does make a distinction for live news events, then that blows much of the most recent “Studio 60″ completely out of the water.
2. Echy | December 8th, 2006 at 8:29 am
With so many people subscribing to cable and satellite I don’t understand why the OTA broadcasters don’t just give up their airwave rights and not worry about the FCC. Is there that much money to be made with OTA broadcasts?
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